*Ø* Blogmanac | Guantanamo Bay brought to Manchester, UK

"MANCHESTER (Reuters) - An artist is building a life-size copy of Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta in a bid to make Britons aware of the conditions in which detainees are being held at the U.S. military base on Cuba.

"The camp will cover an area about the size of a soccer pitch on wasteland in Manchester.

"Like the original, it will have a guards' mess, a prisoners' dormitory, a parade ground, floodlights, a sentry post and a perimeter fence topped with barbed wire.

"Loudspeakers will be used to play the U.S. national anthem each morning and the Islamic call to prayer three times a day.

"Nine volunteers, one for each of the nine British prisoners believed to be held at Guantanamo Bay, will be kept under guard in the camp for nine days ...

"The real Camp Delta, formerly known as Camp X-Ray, has become a controversial symbol of what many see as the draconian measures the U.S. government has taken in its self-declared war on terror ...

"The U.S. describes the detainees as 'enemy combatants' rather than prisoners of war and has denied them their legal rights under the Geneva Convention ..."
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